Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a99a52c3f75a11e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0137d211ee0933b84938145f123a99a8 SHA-1: 44c8d5f22a4f0213978c8cf77dff04d068863f4b SHA-256: a99a52c3f75a11e310151aee062cd29999389840b58739a158c3e2b99573e47d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, including compromised CMS upload storage, with one URL specifically mentioning 'gta extreme apk' as a search term. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+extreme+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76786924221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.de/userfiles/file/giworobogiridofibaxazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8b9i9l71nu7f0hl8mflm8sqe6/53051541020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145598ee8531---diminino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/77016907282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/mewoliwenijitete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/nunebavenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nscenter.cn/upload/files/28085256798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/65200936615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/18033996509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/36200706460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natatourism.com/userfiles/files/fevixegelurefilozutopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021090500085160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/71991677760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogexekiranak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08e3fe1181d2a21a990d2e10ca89262f/nibafewagazarerigaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/44993652741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrarental.org/upload/file/ragajoguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33889599774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotata-zlin.cz/obr/clanky/file/4791416076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/8421900694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.com/beta/assets/file/xidilok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/45947287672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvssteelex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96202423188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgestone-ice-cruiser-7000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000afbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D0 14416 bytes
SHA-256: cf341892adca690b2001961b8c6b2cd483619b25520092cd26c9aba473421868
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF5 10116 bytes
SHA-256: 5ac17376f1f11b20b030c27692c8bbf5395a488aa7ef07b271f8e39fc89f4904